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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948,proclaimed that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.”

Believe it or not, the United States pushed really hard for these rights to be law.

Frankly, the U.S. probably would not survive another Republican administration.

Our problems are too complex for simplistic solutions.

The Republicans believe that they can just continue to marginalize people who are “different”, that is, poor or non-White.

Aside from the ethics of such an approach, soon the U.S. will contain more minorities than whites.

Polls indicate, elections have shown, that people are tired of the Republican exclusivity, and massive government agencies whose sole purpose seems to be to “control” those they disagree with.

They are tired of being taxed more and more for wrong-headed military adventures which enrich the defense contractors and impoverish everyone else.

The Republicans believe that the only purpose of our government is to protect their wealth, and to oppress everyone else.

The Republicans say that “we” can’t afford to house homeless children.

They say we can’t afford to provide decent schools for those less fortunate.

The one percent of Americans who control 95 percent of America’s wealth, many who inherited their wealth, say that we cannot afford to grant economic equality to those who actually created the wealth that has allowed them to live as kings and queens, and dominate the world.

The children of slaves, for example, whose forefathers built much of this country, now form a huge percentage of those in cages in our country.

A country, by the way, that imprisons a larger number of its poor than Communist China.

Not just percentage wise, but in total numbers of caged human beings.

The Nobles spend billions of dollars to convince the undereducated masses of America that it is wrong for our government to feed the hungry, that to even consider feeding hungry children and educating them and helping them with, again, basic human rights, which include a place to live and food to eat, is socialism.

The Republicans believe that the answer to social problems is more cages for the poor.

They build bigger and more expensive, and more inhumane prisons as the most efficient way to house the poor.

A recent , original bit of social engineering which has proven popular among these aristocrats of ours is the prison system of Arizona, where the prisoners are housed in tents, in the desert, where the temperature has been known to soar to 120 degrees in the summer.

The Warden of one of these American penal colonies brags, “My dog lives inside, in air conditioning. But he deserves it. He’s not a scum bag like the criminals I house in the tents.”

He is very popular among Republicans and others, who think that merely housing poor people in cages where they will be beaten, robbed and raped, is too easy on them.

Americans want freedom of thought, and privacy in our bedrooms, and decent schools and repaired infrastructure.

They are tired of justice being “just us.”

Less than 20 percent of Americans consider themselves Republicans.

My personal view is that most Republicans are just not very aware of reality, they spend too much time listening to the hate speech of Limbaugh and Beck and the other lunatics of the right.

I believe that we, all of us, are responsible for what we do.

If a thousand members of the Nobility in America grow fat and fly around the world in air-conditioned luxury, sampling the local girls, or in Rush Limbaugh’s case, the young boys, while strung out on drugs and wolfing down Viagra and oxycontinin, in essence, legally raping and pillaging, and a hundred thousand babies cry for milk or a bowl of gruel in the Sub-Saharan desert, and poor kids go to prison for using the “illegal” version of Oxycontin, i.e., heroin, because they can’t afford a doctor to feed them the drugs Limbaugh gets “legally”, serious wrongs have been committed.

A poor kid, desperate to get his “Oxycontin”, who goes to a 7-11 and shoots up the place is responsible for his actions, too.

Just like Limbaugh, although on a much smaller scale.

I have been, like many Americans, watching the news, and wondering where all the brutality we see on the local news comes from.

One source of origin may be that poor, hungry children see a government for the rich, of the rich, and by the rich as a sort of sociopathic monster.

Bush gunned down, blew up, and tortured thousands of people during his presidency, many of them were innocent women and children.

He bragged about torturing people.

He justified it, and so did his friends.

Just like gang members do.

On a much smaller scale.

Don’t tell me the difference.

Tell a gang member fighting for his turf.

Tell him that Bush earned his wealth and property because he was born rich.

Tell the poor that we have the right to kick down their doors and brutalize them because the drugs they sell are illegal.

Unlike the drugs pushed by the wealthy pharmaceutical companies, the tobacco companies and the liquor industry.

Show the poor how, although many more people die from the legal drugs, and alcohol, and tobacco, they are good, and the people who sell them are good.

Teach them why they go to prison for selling a drug that has never killed anyone, Marijuana, and teach them how evil they are in comparison to the heroes of tobacco and pharmaceuticals and liquor.

Ask them why they are angry, and sociopathic.

A young man goes to Iraq, and sees a fellow soldier killed or injured, and he becomes afflicted with PTSD.

He is eligible for free health care and a disability check for life.

Do poor children in America, who see their friends and parents and siblings killed and beaten and raped, who are similarly victimized themselves, have a program to take care of them?

No, they don’t even have basic health care, and the Republicans say it is socialism for them to even want it.

The Republican platform, caring only for the wealthy, has worked pretty well for them, so far.

They have gotten richer.

And when they have financial worries, the same government that they viciously castigate for providing a school lunch for hungry children, will be more than willing to give them unlimited sums of hard currency, whatever they need, no problem,

That we can afford.

We can afford to pay CEO’s multi-million dollar bonuses from tax revenues.

Look, we probably could afford to have Medicare for all Americans…but that would be socialism, and we all know how evil that is.

On his morning radio show faux news commentator and hate-peddler Glenn Beck waxed enthusiastic about his love for the musical group, “Muse”. Before he finished praising the group their manager called up his show and asked that he retract his recommendation.

Understandable. Beck’s commendation is like a kiss of death for anyone wishing to reach an adult audience with an IQ over 50.

In coverage of the Andrew McCabe investigation, there seems to be a lot of adding two plus two and coming up with five.The New York Times and Washington Post have reported that a grand jury met on Thursday in connection with a probe involving McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director. As I write this column on Friday evening, no indictment has been returned a […]

A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News brought by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, concluding there are plausible claims that the network was party to a “campaign of emotional torture.”

Tesla's automated emergency braking (AEB) system, which was first introduced in 2017, has improved markedly in a relatively short amount of time. Just a few weeks ago, for example, Tesla demonstrated its next-gen AEB system which can more ably apply the brakes when a pedestrian or cyclist is detected. With that said, we recently stumbled across a new vi […]

Archeo ModenaROME—In 2009, the straight world swooned when archaeologists discovered two ancient skeletons from between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. holding hands in a grave in Modena, Italy. They were dubbed the “Lovers of Modena” and have become synonymous with heterosexual romance, their image now often used in Italy to symbolize undying love.When […]

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó rejected allegations Friday that he has ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, as officials launched an investigation based on photos appearing in social media purportedly showing him posing with members of the gang. The pictures were allegedly taken in late February when Guaidó crossed into Colombia and made a s […]

A pair Confederate statues will remain standing in the city of Virginian city Charlottesville where clashes over their removal left a young woman dead.After city officials decided to remove statues of Confederate American Civil War generals Robert E Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, one resident filed a lawsuit to prevent this.

President Trump said he spoke Saturday to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of a “mutual defense treaty” between the two nations—just days before Israeli voters go to the polls to decide the fate of the embattled leader.

A World War II cemetery that is the resting place for hundreds of British and Commonwealth soldiers in the Netherlands was the target of vandals who spray-painted a big swastika and random letters on many headstones.

Police are on the hunt for a solid gold working toilet valued at over $1 million that was stolen overnight on Saturday at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, causing damage and flooding at the birthplace and ancestral home of Winston Churchill.

In coverage of the Andrew McCabe investigation, there seems to be a lot of adding two plus two and coming up with five.The New York Times and Washington Post have reported that a grand jury met on Thursday in connection with a probe involving McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director. As I write this column on Friday evening, no indictment has been returned a […]

A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News brought by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, concluding there are plausible claims that the network was party to a “campaign of emotional torture.”

Tesla's automated emergency braking (AEB) system, which was first introduced in 2017, has improved markedly in a relatively short amount of time. Just a few weeks ago, for example, Tesla demonstrated its next-gen AEB system which can more ably apply the brakes when a pedestrian or cyclist is detected. With that said, we recently stumbled across a new vi […]

Archeo ModenaROME—In 2009, the straight world swooned when archaeologists discovered two ancient skeletons from between the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. holding hands in a grave in Modena, Italy. They were dubbed the “Lovers of Modena” and have become synonymous with heterosexual romance, their image now often used in Italy to symbolize undying love.When […]

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó rejected allegations Friday that he has ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, as officials launched an investigation based on photos appearing in social media purportedly showing him posing with members of the gang. The pictures were allegedly taken in late February when Guaidó crossed into Colombia and made a s […]

A pair Confederate statues will remain standing in the city of Virginian city Charlottesville where clashes over their removal left a young woman dead.After city officials decided to remove statues of Confederate American Civil War generals Robert E Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, one resident filed a lawsuit to prevent this.

US officials have warned that feral hogs heading across the border from Canada may pose a danger to the local environment. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that sightings of the feral animals on the US-Canadian border have increased in recent years. At least eight of the wild animals have been sighted just north of Lincoln County, Montana, t […]